Meeting Reports

Participants at the ACA Summer Course. (Photo coutesy of ACA)

Summer School
The seventh annual ACA Summer Course in Crystallography, U. of Georgia, July, 1998 offered instruction and hands-on training in small molecule X-ray diffraction and fundamental training in macromolecular crystallography. 60 graduate and undergraduate students, post-docs and representatives from industrial laboratories attended. IUCr Travel Scholarships were awarded to C. Arici (Turkey), E. Baez (Mexico), D. Lecerof (Sweden), S. Ozcan (Turkey), A. Teplitsky (Israel), and W. Tempel (UK). The course was dedicated to the memory of K.N. Trueblood one of its founders. The course offered lectures on fundamentals during the mornings, hands-on Lab experience during the afternoons and lecturers on more advanced topics in the evenings. The staff included W. Cordes, B. Craven, S. Geib, H. Hauptman, R. Marsh, G. Newton, W. Robinson, J. Rose, R. Sparks, C. Campana, D. Frankel, K. Tesh, and D. Stewart. The last four days focused on macromolecular crystallography including crystallizations, data collection strategies, derivative preparation, isomorphous replacement, anomalous scattering and various structure refinement methods. Lecturers included L. DeLucas, W. Furey, L. Lipscomb, Z. Liu, C. Momany, B.-C. Wang, C. Chen, S. Foundling, A. Wang, and C. Wu. Students received the fourth edition of the lecture outline "Structure Analysis by X-ray Crystallography". Sponsors included the U. of Georgia, the ACA, the IUCr, Molecular Structure Corp, Nonius, Bruker and MarResearch provided lecturers, lab tutors, consultants and two scholarships each. Next years school, July 13-28 will include eight days of fundamental and small molecule crystallography and eight days of macromolecular crystallography.
G. Newton

Microgravity Gets Off the Ground in Granada
Nearly 250 scientists from academia, government, and industry gathered for the Seventh Int'l Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, in May 1998 in Granada, Spain. A highlight of the session on microgravity was a plenary talk titled "Recent Advances in Microgravity Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules," given by Principal Investigator, A. McPherson, of the U. of California, Irvine. During the microgravity session, Lawrence DeLucas, of the U. of Alabama, Birmingham, also presented papers titled "X-ray Facility for the Int'l Space Station" and "Vapor Diffusion Crystal Growth Experiments in Microgravity."
(from Microgravity News Summer '98)

Electron School
The 4th Stockholm Electron Crystallography School took place during Midsummer week 1998. Students came from 20 countries on all 5 continents. The external teachers were J. Steeds, Bristol (CBED), B. Cernik, Daresbury Synchrotron (Powder Diffraction), L. Marks, Chicago (surface structures) and G. Cascarano (direct methods for solving structures from SAED data).
(Electron Crystallography News August '98)

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Meeting Reports
Participants at the ACA Summer Course. (Photo coutesy of ACA)
Summer School The seventh annual ACA Summer Course in Crystallography, U. of Georgia, July, 1998 offered instruction and hands-on training in small molecule X-ray diffraction and fundamental training in macromolecular crystallography. 60 graduate and undergraduate students, post-docs and representatives from industrial laboratories attended. IUCr Travel Scholarships were awarded to C. Arici (Turkey), E. Baez (Mexico), D. Lecerof (Sweden), S. Ozcan (Turkey), A. Teplitsky (Israel), and W. Tempel (UK). The course was dedicated to the memory of K.N. Trueblood one of its founders. The course offered lectures on fundamentals during the mornings, hands-on Lab experience during the afternoons and lecturers on more advanced topics in the evenings. The staff included W. Cordes, B. Craven, S. Geib, H. Hauptman, R. Marsh, G. Newton, W. Robinson, J. Rose, R. Sparks, C. Campana, D. Frankel, K. Tesh, and D. Stewart. The last four days focused on macromolecular crystallography including crystallizations, data collection strategies, derivative preparation, isomorphous replacement, anomalous scattering and various structure refinement methods. Lecturers included L. DeLucas, W. Furey, L. Lipscomb, Z. Liu, C. Momany, B.-C. Wang, C. Chen, S. Foundling, A. Wang, and C. Wu. Students received the fourth edition of the lecture outline "Structure Analysis by X-ray Crystallography". Sponsors included the U. of Georgia, the ACA, the IUCr, Molecular Structure Corp, Nonius, Bruker and MarResearch provided lecturers, lab tutors, consultants and two scholarships each. Next years school, July 13-28 will include eight days of fundamental and small molecule crystallography and eight days of macromolecular crystallography. G. Newton		Microgravity Gets Off the Ground in Granada Nearly 250 scientists from academia, government, and industry gathered for the Seventh Int'l Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, in May 1998 in Granada, Spain. A highlight of the session on microgravity was a plenary talk titled "Recent Advances in Microgravity Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules," given by Principal Investigator, A. McPherson, of the U. of California, Irvine. During the microgravity session, Lawrence DeLucas, of the U. of Alabama, Birmingham, also presented papers titled "X-ray Facility for the Int'l Space Station" and "Vapor Diffusion Crystal Growth Experiments in Microgravity." (from Microgravity News Summer '98) Electron School The 4th Stockholm Electron Crystallography School took place during Midsummer week 1998. Students came from 20 countries on all 5 continents. The external teachers were J. Steeds, Bristol (CBED), B. Cernik, Daresbury Synchrotron (Powder Diffraction), L. Marks, Chicago (surface structures) and G. Cascarano (direct methods for solving structures from SAED data). (Electron Crystallography News August '98)